The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.

Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.

Run mad as often as you choose but do not faint

...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.